pen assembly jig

The idea for this assembly jig came about due to me making multiple pens and having parts rolling all over my workbench,. Yes I could have put a towel down but I am hard headed andd have enough stuff spread across my bench. This made from a piece of maple and a 3/4 piece of aromatic cedar that I resawed and planed down to 1/4” thick and book matched together. I then laminated the cedar to the maple and cut it to size. I createdd a layout jig from hardboar that I could reuse to make more of these (if anyone is interested wink wink). Once the lines and holes were marked I drilled the peg holes with a drill press to about 1/2” deep. Next I made a circle cutting template that plugged into the peg holes for alignment of the parts bowls. I used a 3/8” bowl tray router bit with a bearing to cut out the parts bowls. I then used a round over bit to round the edges of the entire jig. I then cut the dados for the blank holders, yes they are 2 different sizes to allow for blanks that are slightly larger then 1” thick. Next I cut the 3/16” dowels to size (this is the largest size to allow for 7mm pen tubes). Then I sanded and finished with natural danish oil then a coat of shellac to seal it and then used 3 coats of spray on laquer. Once the laquer dried I glued in the pegs, waited for them to dry and trimmed the glue overspread. Once this was done i finished with one final uniform coat of laquer.Hope everyone enjoys it.

Thanks i have had couple people in town tell me I should sell them but the time and materials would probably over price it. But I might build a couple more and put them on Ebay or Craigslist. Any thoughts from anyone?

Bullet pens sell themselves right out of the box IF you can get a gunshop to put say 10-15 in the display. Of course you lose some as you have to share for the exposure but moving them is not bad, if you can get some help….